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Modern Library's 100 Best Novels
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Modern Library polled its editorial board to compile this list of the best 100 novels of the 20th century.
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Ulysses
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Lolita
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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The Sound and the Fury
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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Darkness at Noon
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Sons and Lovers
10
The Grapes of Wrath
11
Under the Volcano
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The Way of All Flesh
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1984 (George Orwell)
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I, Claudius
15
To the Lighthouse
16
An American Tragedy
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
18
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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Invisible Man
20
Native Son
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Henderson the Rain King
22
Appointment in Samarra
23
U.S.A. Trilogy (John Dos Passos)
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Winesburg, Ohio
25
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
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The Wings of the Dove
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The Ambassadors
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Tender Is the Night
29
The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
30
The Good Soldier
31
Animal Farm
32
The Golden Bowl
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Sister Carrie
34
A Handful of Dust
35
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
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All the King's Men
37
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
38
Howards End
39
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
40
The Heart of the Matter (Graham Greene)
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